Sound Off for Friday, May 19

BEFORE THE FILTH

I was just wondering whatever happened to clean, non-foul language speaking comedy. The last one I can think of is “That 70s Show,” and that debuted almost 20 years ago.

FED UP WITH TV

WHO CARES ABOUT COMEY?

To the caller complaining that the initial story about Comey’s firing was back on page 16: The Daily Times was the right putting it back there. It’s an embarrassment to talk about that guy. There he is a typical government official, in one of the most powerful positions in the world, who when called upon to do his job just couldn’t seem to be decisive, take sides or do it right. It took him in two weeks get through 30,000 or more emails from Hillary and decide “eh, what the heck.” The guy just can’t seem to make a decision. Meanwhile, he’s collecting how much money for many years? If you can’t do your job, you must face the facts like the rest of us and get fired.

DRAIN THE SWAMP, DONALD

RATINGS COUNT

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To the callers who want to know when they’re going to pull plug on Colbert: When everybody stops watching. I’ve already stop watching to talking heads on CNN, MSNBC, and most of them. The only one that tells it the way it is Fox. The media corporations know what you’re watching. So if people stop watching and they can’t get the advertising money, they’ll take him off.

GET SICK AND DIE

I hear all these people saying if we repeal Obamacare, there would be 24 million people without insurance. What did these people do before Obamacare?

JEANETTE G.

They didn’t have insurance — Ed.

BILL OF PARTICULARS

“Fine Whine” is a typical Trump Republican. They obviously don’t know the particulars of that bill passed by the House, otherwise they wouldn’t think that we should just accept it. It is way worse than the bill that they couldn’t even get to the floor of the House for vote. But “Fine Whine” doesn’t care about particulars of the bill, they just want everybody to accept the bill was passed by the Republicans, and that is one of the dumbest ideas I’ve ever heard my life.

PUTIN FOR PRESIDENT

“Tin Foil Hat Time” doesn’t really make a whole lot of sense talking about Putin coming here to run, but they do make a point: If Putin were to run here, he probably would win. Because people in this country are stupid enough to vote for Trump, they’re probably stupid enough to vote for Putin, too.

RIDLEY SKATES

I saw that Ridley High School has students in the finals of a competition sponsored by Vans, a skateboarding and BMX shoe company, to win the $50,000. I find this hypocritical since Ridley Township will not open up a skate park to give kids a place to skateboard and ride bikes without fear of trespassing or loitering laws.

ROTTEN TIMES

These cartoonists that the Times runs need to learn some history before they comment on it. I saw one this week where Nixon is speaking to Trump – it was not Nixon who said about learning the lessons of history, it was George Santayana. In order to get the president, you need you a crime, as Watergate was with Nixon. You’ve got a pretty sorry paper. As much as you would love to see Trump get run out of office somehow, it’s not going to happen because the people elected him and the paper will see to it that he stays there.

GOODBYE, TIMES

CRAZIES IN CONTROL

“Mr. Tom In Linwood” doesn’t think that President Obama should have endorsed Emmanuel Macron, who is the president of France now. I guess that’s because “Mr. Tom In Linwood” rather have Marine Le Pen, since he voted for Trump. Well, Le Pen is even crazier than Donald Trump, but apparently “Mr. Tom In Linwood” thinks that being crazy is a prerequisite for holding office taken this country and in France.